Who Do You Need Me to Be?
By Pastor Paula Burchill Many years ago in a mom’s group I was a part of, we were having a conversation about our kids. If I remember correctly, many of […]
Being Church
By Pastor Paula Burchill SLC recently hosted a memorial service for someone who had no connection to our church. The woman had traveled to the area to receive medical treatment, […]
Lots of Talk about Grace and Welcome
I hear a lot of talk today about grace and welcome. We rightly celebrate these words and talk of them abounds both locally and nationally in our church. We often […]
SLC is Loving Kitsap & our World
Part of our strategic plan of “Connecting More People to Christ” is to love Kitsap and our world. As we seek to grow our outreach, it is good to stop […]
Yoke
By Pastor Paula Burchill Last week Holy Yoga started up again and our teacher Hannah made me see some of my favorite verses in a whole new way. The verses […]
Ordinary Time … by Kim Grasmick
Ordinary Time – by Kim Holmes Grasmick/Council Member-Evangelism & Outreach Our liturgical calendar shows seasons, like Advent, Lent and Easter, with the longest season called Ordinary Time. We are right […]
Trust
By Pastor Paula Burchill Spending the summer preaching the psalms has been a gift. It has given words to laments and praise and hard questions and lots of things that […]
A Short Big Reminder
One of the central stories in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is where the Hebrews are set free from slavery in Egypt, known as the Exodus. Do you know why […]
Our Big Day
Yesterday was an important date in our history. Did you celebrate? Probably not, it even slipped by me! Indeed, when it comes to celebrating the Reformation, June 25 is perhaps […]
All In
By Pastor Paula Burchill Have you been watching the Mariners? I went to the game last Friday and as we were walking my almost 15 year old son said, “Mom, […]
Freedom and Authority
By Pastor Paula Burchill I went to Concordia College, a small Lutheran liberal arts college in Minnesota, and while there, a required course for all freshman was called Principia. The […]
